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A local woman has finally been able to return home after a months-long battle over her immigration status.
51-year-old Elvira Benitez-Suarez of Sheboygan Falls was detained at a routine immigration check-in in Milwaukee in March. She’s been in ICE custody at a detention center in Kentucky and was released Tuesday after an immigration judge granted her a $1500 bond.
Benitez-Suarez’s detention came after a judge ruled late last year that she could obtain a green card. An appeal of that decision by the Trump administration is currently pending before the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Her attorney said Benitez-Suarez fled from Mexico to the United States at the age of 15 after she was the victim of sexual assault and has no criminal record. Her four children are U.S. citizens.
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